On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Yeah, I wish I could find a good cite... >> > Perhaps the deltarpm and/or xz maintainers could chime in with the >> > exact info. >> >> This is the first hit for "xz compression deltarpm problem" and >> describes the problem perfectly ... although it is from 2009 ;) >> >> http://cedarandthistle.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/deltarpm-problems-part-ii/ >> > <nod> That does a great job of explaining what we had here. The difference > this time is that instead of architecture being the key, version of xz was > the key. The new and old versions of xz create compatible archives but they > aren't byte-for-byte identical. That could lead to certain circumstances > where the rpm signature was invalid for an rpm reconstructed from a deltarpm > even though the uncompressed data was the same. I updated the wiki page a bit. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
